[02-14-14] Thomas Leeuw (graduate student, School of Marine
Sciences, University of Maine) has released his HydroColor water quality application. This app uses the iPhone camera to
determine the reflectance of natural water bodies. Using this information, HydroColor can estimate water turbidity between
0 and 80 NTU. A complete description can be found here.

[10-18-12] More than 310,000 spectra of particulate absorption and attenuation have been processed from the Tara Ocean
cruise. Data can be found here or on SeaBASS.

[10-18-12] A new Tara expedition is planned which will
circumnavigate the Arctic ice
from May to November of 2013. The Arctic Ocean is an area of intense interest as it is believed to be most affected by climate
change, an area where global ocean-color bio-optical algorithms perform poorly, and an area where, due to its remoteness, sampling
has been extremely sparse (as of 5/26/12 SeaBASS contained only 177 samples of HPLC collected north of 66N in the upper 10m of the
water column). In addition to the optical measurements that were done during Tara Oceans
(particulate absorption and attenuation using AC-s, backscattering, attenuation and fluorescence on CTD package and HTSRB
reflectance at stations) we've proposed to supplement the in-line system with 1) a WETLabs ALFA (Aquatic Laser fluorescence analyzer),
2) a Mote marine lab automated system to measure system absorption using a 1m long ultra-path fiber optics capillary waveguide,
and 3) in-line backscattering measurements.

[05-22-12] Merging Biology and Optics - an interview with
Thomas Leeuw, M.S. candidate in Oceanography in the MISC Lab.

[02-10-12] Lee is on board TARA
for the next leg (New York City to Bermuda), 02-12-12 through 02-22-12.

[12-24-11] Follow TARA OCEANS!
Emmanuel will be the Chief Scientist on the next leg (12-28-11 through 01-22-12) of this global expedition studying marine plankton.

[05/26/10] The Ocean Optics Web Book, a continually developing community resource for optical oceanography, has been published
to the WWW. Initial content provided by Curtis Mobley, Emmanuel Boss, and Collin Roesler.

[02/05/09] One new publication (Direct contribution of phytoplankton-sized particles to optical backscattering in the open
ocean) added today, along with the latest surface and profile data for Float 0015
(now on profile #253).

[01/23/09] A couple of new publications added
today, along with the latest surface and profile data for Float 0015
(now on its 250th profile).

[01/09/09] One new publication added
along with the latest surface and profile data for Float 0015
(now on its 246th profile).

[12/08/08] A couple of new publications added
along with the latest surface and profile data for Float 0015
(now on its 241st profile).

[07/11/08] Data for the GP506 Equatorial Box project have now been posted.

[06/13/08] We've added one new peer-reveiwed, scientific publication
and one new abstract to our website. See also our newest
movies posted on the misc page...

[05/16/08] New abstracts and
poster presentations have been
added to our document repository.

[03/24/08] The 2008 Teaching Science by Ocean Inquiry workshop
will be held July 21-25, 2008 at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, ME.
The goals of this workshop are to a) introduce teachers to ocean and climate related processes that can be
used as a vehicle to teach general physical concepts and b) develop a network between teachers,
scientists and experts in education. This workshop is intended for high school and middle school
teachers who teach physics, chemistry, physical science, and/or earth sciences.